AI Summit 2024: The Best AI Uses Discussed
Australian Financial Review
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- Date Published
- 29 May 2024
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- 3
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- 8 Mar 2025, 02:41 pm
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Will it be useful or “just cool”? Executives and industry insiders spent the Summit discussing how they are already using artificial intelligence in their work.
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The article provides insights from the Australian Financial Review AI Summit, where industry executives and insiders deliberated on the practical applications of AI in current business environments. The summit highlighted a range of AI use cases, urging companies to assess the tangible value versus the novelty of AI implementations. The discussions underscored the importance of distinguishing between AI's real benefits and superficial appeal, a crucial consideration for AI policy and governance frameworks. This perspective is integral to ensuring AI's role in mitigating potential risks while maximizing its utility.
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TechnologyAI SummitPrint articleMaxim ShanahanProfessional services reporterMay 29, 2024 – 8.42amSaveLog inorSubscribeto save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?Login“Use-case” was the phrase of the day atThe Australian Financial Review AI Summitas bankers, founders, fundies and tech bosses confronted the present and future impact of the artificial intelligence boom.Businesses have been keen to spruik their AI bona fides far and wide since the technology hit the mainstream. But Allens partner Valeska Bloch urged them to ask if AI adoption will be “useful, or is it just cool?“.Loading...Maxim Shanahanis a professional services reporter at the Australian Financial Review.EmailMaximatmax.shanahan@nine.com.auSaveLog inorSubscribeto save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?LoginLicense articleFollow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.Find out moreRead MoreAI SummitAICommonwealth BankWestpac Banking CorporationSuncorpGoogleFetching latest articlesOlympic weightlifting is hard. This boss uses the 1pc rule to get it doneLucy DeanOut-of-control watch price rises give housing a run for its moneyKnow your craft: How the biggest airlines rate at the pointy end‘We’ll fight’: Alex Waislitz on family battles and bad betsPatrick DurkinJob appointments have never been purely merit-based: CEW chiefWhy this CEO saves creative work for after her periodNew Zealand pops its cork for one of the world’s great wine festivalsMax AllenWhy Hawaii’s data-driven wellness retreat is a haven for high-flyersA last-chance tote bag and a groovy case for trumpetersVictor Smorgon’s star fundie eyes 50pc returns for new fundAlex GluyasForrest family powerbroker had alleged role in big Fortescue decisionsEllison-run garnet mine faces punishment over unsanctioned development